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Date: 23 Oct 92 17:57:53 GMT
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Subject: Re: The Obfuscated Ada Contest (was Re: An admittedly biased ...)
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In article <1992Oct22.080735.19815@intrepid.com> gary@intrepid.com (Gary Funck)
 writes:
>   something to talk about.  My point here is: if some degree of
>   abstraction is good, a very high degree of abstraction is not
>   always better.

Yes, and also there is a quote from Butler Lampson "Abstraction is no excuse
for not getting it right".